Academic year in France
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
THERE IS A LOT TO DISCOVER IN FRANCE
WHAT ARE THE MAIN ADVANTAGES OF STUDYING IN THE UNITED STATES?
Our company is proud to offer an academic year program in Franceand provide you with specialized staff capable of doing so. We are a small company and it is our priority to give individual attention to each student and his/her family.
We’d like to meet you in person to give you the best treatment possible and try to clear the usual doubts and fears that my appear in such situations. Our knowledge is endorsed by our own experience.
As members of ASEPROCE, the Spanish Association of Promoters of Studies Abroad, we are committed to complying with the law and guaranteeing maximum quality in all our programs.
In addition, we have successfully passed the recent quality control performed by Lloyd’s Register LRQA.
What is special about signing up for an academic year in France?
Deciding to spend a season abroad is usually a thoughtful and important decision for both the family and the student. Deciding to do the academic year in France implies a total cultural and language immersion very close to our country.
How to enroll for an academic year in France?
In order to start the file and formalize the enrollment in the academic year in France program, you must send us the registration form and sign the documents accepting the General Conditions of the Program.
Once the registration form is received, we will arrange a meeting with the student and his/her parents/legal guardians for a personal or Skype interview and an English test.
Once we have your dossier ready, you will have to make the first payment. The next payment should be carried out during the first fortnight of April.
Good level of French facilitates the integration and successful outcome of the program. Therefore, it is necessary for the student to pass a level test and a personal interview carried out in French.
Once all the documents have been reviewed and the candidate’s profile and file have been assessed, the student receives his acceptance letter to the program.
Documents needed to apply for the J1 program:
- ID card
- Passport
- Photograph
- Academic certificate
- Previous course results
- Birth certificate
French schools
There are 3 private schools in the area of Baiona and Biarritz, in close proximity to each other, that are available when signing up for the program.
Lycée catholique Saint Louis Villa Pia: secondary school.
Lycée catholique Largenté: secondary school for girls.
Collège catholique La Salle Saint Bernard: secondary school for all.
Los alumnos son ubicados en el instituto que más se adapta a su nivel, preferencias y disponibilidad.
El programa ofrece la posibilidad de realizar 1, 2 ó 3 trimestres desde septiembre o 1 ó 2 trimestres desde enero.
Accommodation
Host Families
Each family is carefully selected: middle class living standards must be met. The family, you and the school are the three pillars of this experience, that is why we put all our effort to make your relationship with them as good as possible.
We will advise you when it comes to preparing your dossier and, together, we will make your request unique and special that will serve as a useful tool to let your possible host families see you as a perfect candidate.
You will be considered as one more member of the family from the very first minute. You will spend a lot of time together with the family, learn their culture and their way of living as well as it will also be your guide during the first weeks and the rest of your stay. You will join the friends gatherings, participate in barbecues, help with house chores, you will comment your march in school, experience Halloween, share Christmas traditions and so on.
Of all the relationships you make in Canada the one you will have with your host family will be the most special and the longest one, that is a connection you will have for life.
Boarding school
The students can stay in the residential area of the school.
If there’s no residential area belonging to the school of choice, the students will be presented with an accommodation of another institution. For instance, if a pupil is studying in Lycée catholique Largenté, he/she will be situated in the boarding school of Collège catholique La Salle Saint Bernard.
Local coordinators
The local coordinators in France will help the students with any problem that might surge. Students will be able to reach them by phone 24 hours per day.
Similarly, local coordinators will supervise the academic records of the students and will be in touch with the schools’ teachers.
Who will help me during my stay?
Every day you will find “daily” problems on your way that you will have to face and probably solve by yourself with no need to ask for help. These situations are the ones that will make you become more mature and grow as a person.
When you encounter situations you cannot solve on your own, your host family, your teachers, the school management, the local coordinator of the program and our team in Spain will be at your disposal to offer you the necessary help.
What about the validation of the course?
Prior to departure, there will be a meeting, where we will clarify all the important points to choose the subjects carefully during your stay we will supervise that election during the first days of school.
During your stay and once you have received our consent of your selection, you will only have to worry about passing your subjects. Moreover, we will explain the steps of how to bring your notes back to Spain, which we will later translate and and make them ready to submit.
Medical assistance
Along their stay, all the students of the program have a health insurance. But we believe it not to be enough, so we have Civil Liability insurance included in the program.
In the event that the student needs medical assistance, he/she must inform both his/her host family and the local coordinator, who will be in charge of all the arrangements.
The price includes:
- Selection process and enrollment in school in France.
- Individual accommodation in a French host family with full board and a single room.
- Or school residence with full board from Monday’s night till Friday’s noon (the end of the week with a family).
- Processing of the validation of studies.
- Coordinador local y supervisión durante toda la estancia por el mismo.
- Health and accident insurance.
- 24-hour assistance phone number.
- Interview, French test and before and orientation before and along the duration of the program.
- Textbooks.
- SIM card.
- Dossier.
- Backpack and a polo.
- Flight ticket management.
- Transfers from the airport to the accommodation and vice versa.
The price does NOT include:
- Round trip ticket to France at the beginning and end of the course.
- Personal expenses of the student during his stay or for activities outside the program (excursions, extracurricular activities , private classes, etc.)
- Private expenses in the School: Lunch, school supplies, sports equipment, etc.
- Stay in the family during holidays at school.
- Classes or extracurricular activities, outside of class.
- Personal clothes.
- School material: pens, notebooks, etc.
- Trips organized by the school at an extra cost. E.g. end-of-course trip.
- Pocket money.